Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows-Mac compatibility

On 2014-03-19 01:55, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> It is better to just install the same fonts on all machines.
>
> Some fonts, particularly ones on Mac and Windows are copyrighted using
> many many different weird licenses.
>
> The standard MS fonts, such as "Times New Roman", Arial, Trebuchet,
> Verdana all have a standard very interesting copyright.  It's
> difficult to know if MS could enforce it through court-action since
> those fonts are used so widely elsewhere with little or no attempt by
> MS to enforce the copyright.  On the other hand it might be unpleasant
> to become a test-case against the might of MS.  There are a lot of
> Free fonts that are closely equivalent and pretty much all distros of
> Gnu&Linux contain tons.  They usually allow you to add the non-Free MS
> ones that are so widely used but it's at the user's own risk.
>
> So, my tactic would be to copy the fonts from your Gnu&Linux to your
> Mac to save the hassle of looking through licenses.
This is my recommendation, at lease for the present. I don't know if LO 
uses the embedded font in preference to the system font where the 
embedded font exists on the system. I overwrite the fonts on the 
windows/mac machine with the GNU font where there is a clash because as 
I mentioned the Arial on the mac (and windows to lesser degree) has 
different metrics to linux. Consequently you also notice differences 
between windows and mac.
steve
> Apart from the fonts issue there should be no compatibility issues
> between LO on Mac and Gnu&Linux (or between either of those and
> Gnu&Hurd, Bsd, Solaris or any other platform LibreOffice works on).
> It's only the Windows one that has to be re-written in places so if
> you are avoiding Windows then there's no difference between the
> version on different platforms.  The version on Mac is the same as the
> version on Gnu&Linux
>
> Even the version on Windows is not all that different so you'll not
> have compatibility issues between Mac and Windows or Gnu&Linux and
> Windows.
>
>
> Even between different versions of LO on the different platforms and
> even between different programs on different platforms you will still
> find a distinct lack of problems.
>
>
> It's only MS Office that creates incompatibility between versions,
> programs and platforms.
>
> Ironic really because most people out in the world often think the
> exact opposite of what is really true.  Very few actually try it out
> and as soon as they do they find the reality but then become ignored
> and labelled as being too geeky.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 16 March 2014 19:18, Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com> wrote:
> > On 2014-03-17 07:32, Dave Barton wrote:
> > > Steve Edmonds wrote:
> > > > On 2014-03-17 03:11, Lorenzo Pii wrote:
> > > > > Dear all,
> > > > > I'm interested in experiences for cross compatibility between Windows
> > > > > and Mac for Calc. Is it fully compatible or only partially? I have a
> > > > > file on dropbox and I m wondering if I d be able to edit it both from
> > > > > my work pc and my personal mac with the same version of libreoffice. I
> > > > > know the best and clever way would be to try it myself, fact is my
> > > > > file has quite some sheets and I would like to avoid to start saving
> > > > > it with both machines and eventually find out in a month or so that
> > > > > something went bad in the process.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks a lot
> > > > >
> > > > > Lorenz
> > > > Hi. I have Linux and macs and have no cross-compatibility issues with LO.
> > > > With my work colleagues there is no compatibility issues windows-Linux.
> > > > I do however standardise fonts across machines, for instance I found the
> > > > Arial on mac was different to the one on Linux causing text to flow
> > > > differently, so I copied my Linux font to my mac.
> > > > Steve
> > > Have you tried the "Embed fonts in the document" option under the "Font"
> > > tab of the document "Properties" dialog?
> > >
> > > In some cases this can "bloat" the file size, but I have found it useful.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > I might just hold of on that for a while. The version we run doesn't support
> > embedding, and from discussions on the list back in 2011, embedding fonts
> > for use in editing documents was pretty much not going to happen. When it is
> > included in the ISO certified standard for ODF I might decide to rely on it
> > but want to wait for any repercussions on inclusion and sharing of of non
> > licensed fonts through ODF.
> > steve
> >
> >
> >
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